WORLD'S MOTOR SPEED
SEGKAVE AT DAYTONA
PAST RECORDS ECLIPSED
United . Frcsj Association—By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright, Australian Press Association—United Serrle* (Received 12th March, 9 a.m.) DAYTONA BEACH (Florida), 11th,March. Major H. O. D. Segrave, the British driver, set a new world's automobile speed record on Monday at 231.36246 miles an hour. ■
In 1927 Major Segravc established tho record of being the first to drive a motor-car over 200 miles an hour, his actual figures over the measured mile at Daytona being 203.79 mile 3 per hour. On the 19th February, 1928, Captain Malcolm Campbell, in his "Bluebird" machine, beat this record by ■ attaining a speed of 206.95 miles per hour. Assisted by a strong wind, the tachometer registered 220 in.p.h. at one stage. On 22nd April last Eay
Keech, driving a Triplex Special, raised the speed recor' 1 to 207.5526 miles per hour. Against this Major Segrave, with . his specially-built Na-pier-engined car, "Golden Arrow," has set a new record, nearly 25 miles an hour faster. Captain Campbell, the rival British speed merchant, is at present in South Africa with, his remodelled "Bluebird," preparing for an attempt to beat the record on Verneuk Pan, the dry bed of a sunken, lake in the north of Cape Colony. :
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 58, 12 March 1929, Page 11
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